Consulting Manager

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

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Job Description

Overview:

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is the advisory arm of Visa, partnering with leading banks, fintechs, merchants, and payment players to solve their most critical growth and transformation challenges. We combine strategy consulting, advanced analytics, deep payments expertise, and Visa's unique assets to create measurable client impact.

The Central Eastern Europe (CEE) Consulting Practice within VC&A provides consulting and solution services for Visa’s issuer, acquirers and merchants in the CEE region. We apply our deep expertise in the payments industry to provide solutions to assist clients with their key business priorities drive growth and improve profitability.

The team is looking for a Consulting Manager to join our strategic consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients in Romania. This role is delivering and implementing projects and solutions and will develop initiatives to promote sustainable and profitable growth, thereby ensuring that Visa is both, the preferred brand and unique business partner.

Typical projects may include:

• How does an issuer expand or increase market share in consumer market?
• How should a credit card issuer use emerging technology to acquire the best customers?
• How does an issuer expand their credit card portfolio while mitigating credit risk?
• How does an issuer optimize their revenues?
• How do we enable increases in spend in specific segments?
• How can we bring innovation for our customers?

You will work at the intersection of strategy, analytics, technology, and payments, helping some of the world's most innovative financial institutions shape the future of commerce. This role offers unparalleled exposure to industry leaders, strategic client challenges, and opportunities to drive meaningful business impact at scale.

You will manage the sale and delivery of high quality consultancy engagements.

Key Work Outputs and Accountabilities:

• Understand our clients’ business objectives together with the Romanian Account Management Team.
• Identify opportunities and improvements to grow the digital banking and payment business of our clients.
• Develop and propose appropriate concepts and business solutions to clients.
• Develop end-to-end portfolio strategies, that incorporate segmentation analysis, cardholder communication, value proposition development, operational and implementation roadmaps, etc.
• Lead and deliver projects through either self, other internal or external staff as appropriate.
• Manage project costs to agreed budgets and timeframes and ensure high standard of delivery.
• Leverage Visa’s innovation, product and data capabilities to further grow our clients’ business by working together with the sales and digital product teams as well as the with the Visa Innovation team.
• Assist in driving meaningful business relationships between Visa and its key clients.
• Support Visa Consulting and Analytics practice development by developing skills, tools and innovative methodologies on both a personal and team level.

How Factors:

• Focusing on customers and stakeholders
• Highly self-driven
• Business thinking
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Networking and building relationships
• Communicating with clarity
• Building credibility
• Making decisions

Resource Management:

• Management of internal and external project team members
• Delegated responsibility for project budgets

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in management consulting, banking, payments, fintech, or financial services.
• Proven track record of leading complex strategic projects and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to identify client growth opportunities.
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and structured communication skills.
• Experience managing project teams and mentoring colleagues.
• Executive presence with the ability to engage confidently with C-suite audiences.
• Experience in using agile methods (i.e. Design Thinking, Lean-Start-up, Scrum).
• Educated to degree level or higher.
• Experience in conceptualizing new products and business models in a digital and technology-driven environments.
• Excellent spoken and written command of Romanian and English.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (written and verbal).
• Excellent ability to comprehend and convey complex business information.
• High levels of integrity and business ethics.
• Willingness to travel and work onsite with clients as needed.
• Willingness to maintain own continuing professional development.
• Willingness to adhere to Visa’s policies including those on Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities and Information Security.

Visa is an EEO Employer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa welcome and encourages application from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.